Reminiscences / Hodge, Orlando John (O J H) / (HB/1902-1902/B+/USED)

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The memoirs of Orlando J. Hodge, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, and, from 1878 to 1889, the editor and owner of the Cleveland, Ohio Sun and Voice. In 1889, Ohio Governor Joseph B. Foraker appointed Hodge to his military staff, after which he acquired the title "Colonel Hodge."

Table of Contents

Buffalo to Cleveland
British War Ships—1813
Shooting of James Bird
The Seminole War
The First Steamboat
How Sound Traveled
The Great Meteoric Display
Steamboating on the Lakes
Log Cabins in 1840
The Second Adventists
Early Revival Confessions
How the "Indians" Came Down
The First Cider Press
In the Mexican War
On the Eureka—1849
Told Fifty Years Ago
The First Whiskey Still
A Father's Advice
A Historic Church
Hiring a Boy
Four Young Men
Gen. Harrison in Cleveland
Welcome to Van Buren
An Eccentric Doctor
Early Newspaper Competition
Gen. Cass in Cleveland
Kossuth's Reception
Postoffices and Postmasters
The Two Boarders
Jenny Lind, the Songstress
The Old and the New
Gen. Scott in Cleveland
Gen. David L. Wood
Old Artillery Stories
The Hero of San Jacinto
Legislative Amenities
Col. Hayward's Story
Why Gov. Wood Failed
The First Police Court—1853
Eccentric Irad Kelley
When Pigeons were Plenty
A Bad Mistake
When Money was Scarce
H. B. Payne's Sarcasm
Garfield on State Flags
Deacon Benjamin Rouse
Three Schoolmates
Returning a Fugitive Slave
Some Court Incidents
Lincoln in Cleveland—1861
Taxing the Liquor Traffic
Judge Tilden's Mistake
Judge Jones When a Boy
Sunday Newspapers
An Untimely Joke
Morgan and the Masons
Henry in the War
Capt. "Tom" Coe
Army Incidents
On the West Side
At the Old Franklin House
Running for Congress
A Historical Hall
The Lost Cows
Gen. Crowell and the Heisleys
How the "Federal Plan" Came
A Worthy Pioneer
The Devil's Doings
Personal and Political
Shooting a Geyser
Why Harry Left the Law
About a Rich Man
That "Poker Legislature"
An Ungrateful President
On a Narrow Margin
Ancestral Lines
A Joke on Tom
Effect of Hallucination
Incidents in Columbus
The Forest City Lyceum
The Centennial Council
A Trip to Moscow
The Wheel of Time
Too Much Talking
"The Great Moon Hoax"
A Little Military History
Why the Affliction
Swapping Stories
Chronological

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